All Time Favorites
Velvet Underground: Heroin (1967) || art rock
Pop Group: We Are All Prostitutes (1980) || post-punk, noise-rock/experimental/no wave, funk
Tortoise: Djed (1996) || post-rock/progressive, minimalism, krautrock, instrumental
Stooges: 1970 (1970) || garage rock/proto-punk, free jazz/noise-rock
Rolling Stones: Can't You Hear Me Knockin' (1971) || hard rock
Velvet Underground: I'm Waiting For the Man (1967) || garage rock/proto-punk
Oxbow: Angel (1991) || post-hardcore, noise-rock/experimental/no wave
Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit (1966) || psych-rock
King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man (1969) || psych-rock, prog/jazz fusion
Neu: Negativland (1971) || krautrock, instrumental
Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me (2010) || chamber folk
David Thomas: Monster Walks the Winter Lake (1986) || chamber folk, experimental
Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance (1978) || post-punk/new wave
Cramps: Sunglasses After Dark (1980) || surf punk, psychobilly
Flipper: Sex Bomb (1981) || noise-rock/art punk
Velvet Underground: Sister Ray (1968) || garage/noise-rock, jam band, psychedelic
Can: Halleluhwah (1971) || krautrock
Doors: The End (1967) || psych-rock
Red House Painters: Medicine Bottle (1992) || slowcore
Suicide: Frankie Teardrop (1977) || synth-punk, industrial/experimental
Popol Vuh: Kyrie (1972) || neoclassical new age, psychedelic
Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog (1969) || garage/hard rock, psychedelic
Fugazi: Waiting Room (1988) || punk/post-hardcore
Radio (Popular) Favorites
Adele: Rolling in the Deep (2010) || pop-soul, R&B
a-ha: Take On Me (1984) || synth-pop
Beach Boys: Good Vibrations (1966) || psych-pop
Bob Dylan: The Times They Are a-Changin (1963) || folk
Bruce Springsteen: Hungry Heart (1979) || heartland rock
Coasters: Searchin' (1957) || doo-wop
Doors: Break On Through (1966) || psych-rock, hard rock
Enya: Orinoco Flow (1988) || ambient pop, new age
Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love (1966) || psych-pop
Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze (1967) || hard rock, psych-rock
Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart (1980) || post-punk, goth
Kinks: You Really Got Me (1964) || garage-pop
Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused (1969) || hard rock
Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah (1984) || folk-pop, gospel
Minutemen: Corona (1984) || post-hardcore, tejano
Norman Greenbaum: Spirit in the Sky (1969) || psych-rock, hard rock
Pixies: Where Is My Mind (1987) || indie rock
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody (1975) || glam rock
Ramones: Blitzkrieg Bop (1976) || punk rock
Rolling Stones: Paint It Black (1966) || mod/garage rock, raga rock
Roy Orbison: Pretty Woman (1964) || pop-rock
Simon & Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence (1965) || folk-pop
Sugarhill Gang: Rapper's Delight (1979) || disco, hip-hop
Tokens: The Lion Sleeps Tonight (1961) || doo-wop
Trashmen: Surfin' Bird (1963) || garage rock
Trio: Da Da Da (1981) || new wave/post-punk
Van Morrison: The Way That Young Lovers Do (1968) || jazz-pop, chamber folk
Verve: Bitter Sweet Symphony (1996) || indie pop
Yes: Roundabout (1971) || prog-rock
Instrumentals
Booker T: Green Onions (1962) || R&B, soul
Dick Dale: Miserlou (1962) || surf rock
Eric Johnson: Cliffs of Dover (1990) || hard rock
Faust: Krautrock (1973) || krautrock, drone, psych/prog-rock
Funkadelic: Maggot Brain (1971) || psych-rock, jam band
Jimi Hendrix: Third Stone from the Sun (1967) || hard rock, psychedelic
Link Wray: Rumble (1958) || surf rock
Neu: Negativland (1971) || krautrock
Pierre Henry: Psyche Rock (1967) || surf/psych-rock, electronic
Tom Waits: Just Another Sucker on the Vine (1983) || dark cabaret, jazz
Tornados: Telstar (1962) || space age pop
Tortoise: Djed (1996) || post-rock/progressive, minimalism, krautrock, instrumental
Van Halen: Eruption (1978) || solo guitar, hard rock/glam metal
Ventures: Walk Don't Run (1960) || surf rock